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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

The son of Niẓām al-Mulk, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī

The consummate vizier, Abū Naṣr ⦗1⦘ Aḥmad, son of the chief of viziers Niẓām al-Mulk al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭūsī, resided in Baghdad.

He served as vizier to both the caliph and the sultan ⦗2⦘; his last appointment was under al-Mustarshid bi-Allāh. After a year and a month he was dismissed and remained confined to his house.

He was a man of high standing and dignity, commanding respect at first sight.

He transmitted ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Raẕẕāq al-Ḥasanābādhī and the latter’s son.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī and his own grandson, Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān.

He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 544 AH, and was buried in his residence.

Before him, in Ramaḍān, the Imām’s nephew Abū al-Faḍl Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Mulk—one of his contemporaries, nearly eighty years old—passed away.

He had studied under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Samʿānī transmitted from him.

This latter figure died in Ṭūs.

(*) Al-Muntazam, vol. 10, pp. 138–139; Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 11, p. 147; Al-Fakhri, p. 306; Al-Wafi bi al-Wafayat, vol. 6, p. 321; Al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, vol. 12, p. 226. (1) In Al-Bidaya the name is erroneously given as Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Nasr. (2) According to Al-Wafi bi al-Wafayat (6/321) and Al-Muntazam (10/138), the correct reading is Muhammad ibn Malikshah, who died in mid Dhu al-Qida, 500 AH; Al-Bidaya, however, reads Mahmud instead of Muhammad.

١٥٣ - ابْنُ نِظَامِ المُلْكِ أَبُو نَصْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بنُ الحَسَنِ الطُّوْسِيُّ * الوَزِيْر الكَامِلُ، أَبُو نَصْرٍ (١) أَحْمَدُ ابْنُ رَأْسِ الوُزَرَاءِ نِظَامِ المُلْكِ الحَسَنِ بنِ عَلِيٍّ الطُّوْسِيُّ، نَزِيْلُ بَغْدَادَ. وَزَرَ لِلْخَلِيْفَةِ وَللسُّلْطَانِ (٢) ، وَآخرُ مَا وَزر لِلمُسْترشد بِاللهِ، ثُمَّ عُزل بَعْدَ سَنَةٍ وَشهر، وَلَزِمَ دَارَهُ. وَكَانَ صدراً مُحْتَشِماً، يَملأُ الْعين. رَوَى عَنْ: عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ الحَسْنَبَاذِيّ، وَابْنه. وَعَنْهُ: السَّمْعَانِيّ، وَحَفِيْده؛ دَاوُد بن سُلَيْمَانَ. مَاتَ: فِي ذِي الحِجَّةِ، سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ، وَدُفِنَ بدَارِه. وَمَاتَ قَبْلَهُ فِي رَمَضَانَ: ابْنُ أُخْت الإِمَامِ أَبُو الفَضْلِ نَصْرُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ نِظَام المُلْكِ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَقْرَانِهِ، قَاربَ الثَّمَانِيْنَ. وَرَوَى عَنِ: الشَّيْخِ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الشِّيْرَازِيِّ. وَعَنْهُ: عَبْدُ الرَّحِيْمِ بنُ السَّمْعَانِيِّ. مَاتَ هَذَا: بِطُوْسَ.

(*) المنتظم ١٠ / ١٣٨، ١٣٩، الكامل في التاريخ ١١ / ١٤٧، الفخري: ٣٠٦، الوافي بالوفيات ٦ / ٣٢١، البداية والنهاية ١٢ / ٢٢٦. (١) تحرف في " البداية " إلى: أبو الحسن علي بن نصر. (٢) محمد بن ملكشاه في نصف ذي القعدة سنة خمس مئة، كما في " الوافي " ٦ / ٣٢١ و" المنتظم " ١٠ / ١٣٨. وفي " البداية " محمود بدل محمد.